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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 191- 243.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Taita valuable to Lord Intef?
(a) Taita knows all the dark secrets of Lord Intef's reign.
(b) Taita manages all his wealth.
(c) Taita is one of his favorite lovers.
(d) Taita has helped him win favor with Pharaoh.

2. How does Taita fake his own death in order to search for Tanus?
(a) He held an embalming ceremony for himself (the body was a stranger's).
(b) Lostris spread rumors that he was dead while he hid in her rooms for a month.
(c) Sprinkled a cat's blood over a boat and left the boat to drift.
(d) Took a large dose of the sleeping potion.

3. When a beggar boy asks for alms from Taita, what does Taita give him?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A date fruit that changes to a stone.
(c) A date fruit that changes to two date fruits.
(d) A date fruit that changes to a scorpion.

4. What body parts are left inside a man when he is embalmed?
(a) The lungs and brain.
(b) The heart and kidneys.
(c) The heart and lungs.
(d) The liver and stomach.

5. Why is Taita nervous about the pageant at the end of the festival?
(a) Lostris has not learned her lines properly.
(b) He must direct the play.
(c) He is playing the main role of Horus.
(d) He wrote a new script to replace the thousand-year-old version.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much time is Tanus given to restore order to the Upper Kingdom?

2. What deity is both Lostris's patron and symbolized by the hippopotamus?

3. When Taita explains Pharaoh's horoscope to Lostris, why does it give her hope?

4. What hunt do Taita and Lostris attend with Pharaoh before the windstorm strikes?

5. What does Tanus name as one of the single worst afflictions to settle on Egypt?

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